Someone just missed out on $10,000, leaving a Powerball ticket unclaimed. Two others will expire soon if the winners do not come forward..

Clerks at the Super C convenience store in Lincoln are busy lately, checking old Powerball tickets.

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“It wasn't me. I wish it was,” said one customer.

That’s because a winning ticket worth $10,000 was sold at that store Jan. 7. The deadline to cash it is Thursday, July 5.

“I’ve checked my purse, my pockets,” said Rachel Torres, the manager of the store. She said several thousand people bought Powerball tickets between January and now and many of them have been calling and coming by the store.

“A lot of them are cleaning out their closets and bringing them up and seeing they have any old ones,” said Torres.

Already, one $10,000 winning ticket, sold in Hastings, Neb., missed the 180-day deadline Monday. Lincoln’s winner will soon be a loser, and another $10,000 Powerball ticket sold in Bridgeport, Neb., on January 11 will be a no good as of July 9.

“It's kind of unusual to have three expiring in such close proximity,” said Neil Watson with the Nebraska Lottery, who added that it has been a bumper year for unclaimed prizes in the state.

A $200,000 winning ticket, sold in Norfolk, became null and void in February.

“Unfortunately, no one stepped forward, so it expired,” said Watson.

All of that money, about $250,000 so far, will go back into larger scratch prizes or promotions.

“We'll put it in the prize pool and it will go back to players,” said Watson.

To win $10,000, you have to match the Powerball and four other numbers. The odds of a win are one in 650,000.

“I think if they don't win the jackpot, a lot of people think they didn't win anything so they don't check their tickets,” said customer John McNally

The winning numbers for the ticket sold in south Lincoln for the Jan. 7 drawing are 3, 21, 24, 38, 39, with the Powerball 24.

The winning numbers sold in Bridgeport on Jan. 11 are 5, 19, 29, 37, 45, with the Powerball 25.